Trump's approval rating at 39 percent

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/319913-poll-trumps-approval-rating-drops-to-39-percent

Th real number is likely in between the low of 39 and the strangely high 55. How anyone can approve of this clown and the numerous Russian scandals unfolding is beyond me. Alienating allies, a disgraced National security Advisor forced to resign, Labor secretary nominee forced to withdraw, muslim ban blocked by those actually familiar with the law are a few of the highlights. For a guy who talked about winning, he's had nothing short of a disastrous first month in office.

 

Pew had Hillary winning, right?

 

Has any other president done worse in their first month, in American history? Doubtful. This clown has to go....he can't even give a press conference without looking like a fool.

 

I know, it's critical so it's fake to trump apologists. Next you're going to tell me how he had a successful press conference today. He's an incompetent buffoon to all but the most feckless of apologists.

 

All I did was ask a simple question. One you seem to be avoiding.

 

He's moving up

 

That's funny, Rasmussen puts him at a 55% approval rating.

In the words of that great woman, Hillary Clinton, "Never believe in polls."

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_feb16

 

I think he has done really well.

 

It's not really the same kind of poll. Predicting who will actually go out and vote is very different from getting a representative sample of adult Americans. In the 2012 election, it was the conservative polls such as Rasmussen that were more wrong, and Pew was the closest. Turnout is the thing they can't seem to predict. Furthermore, the poll of polls was only off by 1% (clinton only won the popular vote by 2%, not 3%), but the distribution of that percentage matters more given the electoral college. Geography picks the president. Pew didn't seem to do polling particular to individual purple states, so we can't compare in terms of electoral points.

 

Nah, the same people took daily polls in states, and all had Hillary winning without effort.

 

It's very amusing to see the trump apologists come in here and yap about polls being wrong and then posting a link to their more favorable rasmussen poll. Your poll is right, mine is wrong? Welcome to the era of post-fact, post-truth trumpism. His apologists don't know whether to cry about polls or hold them up. Thank you trump apologists for coming in here for proving the point that news that confirms your bias is good, and those that contradict it is fake. Hook. Line. Sinker.

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At what, exactly?

 

I don't actually know if pew had Hillary winning but it's kind of irrelevant to this poll.

 

Are polls believable, or not? I haven't believed polls since Trump joined the race. Guess who's been right all this time.

 

Hillary did win and wm pretty much by the % pew predicted...the popular vote.

 

Trump won the election with an approval rating of 42%. That's all he needs.
In 2020 I have no doubt that the democrats will dig up a candidate unpopular enough to lose to Trump again. It's what they're good at.

 

Pew and others also took daily statewide polls, and all had Hillary winning with little effort. The polls were wrong.

 

Then why did you post the rasmussen poll if you don't believe any of them?

 

By the way. Are these pollsters the same ones that predicted his lose?

 

To show by example how silly it is to believe in polls.

 

You don't understand the reason for the discrepancy. It's not who did the polling, it was their assumptions about who would vote. No such assumptions are needed for approval ratings, unless you want to restrict approval ratings only to people who will vote in the next election for some reason.

 

Then by all means the Dems should base their political strategy on the popular vote and ignore the electoral college. It's a winner.

 

It was Republicans who insisted against the Labor Secretary nominee when learned he favored open borders. So it is fun reading democrats such as the OPer boasting of his withdrawing his resignation. I agree with the democrat OPer : 3 cheered the open border cabinet nominee was forced to withdraw by Republicans in Congress.

 

No they shouldn't. But the electoral college is unjust.

 

Rasmussen has been junk.

Pew called the popular vote right.
Gallup has been pretty consistently leaning GOP for a few years.

On approval of Trump

Yes No
CNN 40 52
Gallup 44 51
ABC News / Washington Post 40 54
Quinnipiac University 37 51
NBC News / Wall Street Journal 44 52
Pew 39

Amazingly low for this early.

 

I was confused by the large discrepancy, but now I see why. The Rasmussen poll is for "likely voters" not all adults. All of the likely and registered voter approval rating polls favor Trump, and most if not all of them lean conservative to begin with. They're trying to make him look better, but are being misleading by calling that an approval rating. Approval ratings are not based upon people who think they'll vote, they're based upon adult citizens.